2013-12-14, 00:45
(2013-12-13, 05:21)bs0d Wrote: I'll show my ignorance on setting this up for xbmcbuntu. In your post you say to run this code:
Code:echo "xsetroot -solid black &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "/usr/bin/xbmc &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && chmod +x $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
I'm running it in the terminal, but it does nothing. So I'm sure I'm not doing something right. Where do I put this code? I don't think it was very clear on that.
Also - stupid question: Do you need an emulator to play the games? How do you load your ROMs into STEAM? I'm not a huge gamer guy- just think it would be cool to view ROM collection like the video library in XBMC and launch from XBMC -play with controller - close, go back to xbmc.
Check that the autostart.sh file is being created:
Code:
nano ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
via a terminal (command line) to edit it. It should contain:
Code:
xsetroot -solid black &
/usr/bin/xbmc &
If all looks good make it executable:
Code:
chmod +x ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
restart and xbmc should restart. You dont need a emulator to play the games on steam, theyre standalone gmes. You need emulators to play roms, you can add them to steam but you need a seperate launcher for each rom + no fanart. better to use rom collection browser or advanced launcher, or try one of garbears retroplayer builds.
(2013-12-13, 11:30)Excelsis Wrote: Hey, I was wondering if there would be a way to set up XBMC so that instead of just launching Steam in big picture mode, it would launch big picture mode AND THEN a game via Advanced Launcher with a single shortcut.
The goal being to have the big picture mode overlay instead of the regular one.
Try:
Code:
steam steam://run/APPID
with bigpicture mode already running. Replace APPID with the number of the game you want to run (eg: 200900 for cave story+, 550 for l4d2). May or may not work, youll need to experiment with steams command line switches
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki...cation_IDs